This past Valentine’s Day, the HipChat team shared their love for their customers by releasing the native client for the HipChat for Mac beta. Our most voted on feature with over 2600 votes, the Mac client ships with a brand new design, performance improvements and much more. Wow — were we blown away by the feedback!
What are people saying?
Damn! I am about to go out for Valentines day lunch with my gf and @hipchat sends me the Mac beta. #TerribleTiming
— Jeff Wood (@minolta1034) February 14, 2013
thank you @hipchat for native os x app. 100% less air, 1000% more gifs, 0% crashing /cc @admgre
— Omachonu Ogali (@oogali) February 14, 2013
New @hipchat beta is looking purrty! Love the new alignment of chats. More history can be seen!
— John Affourtit (@JTA4T) February 14, 2013
They should call the adobe air @hipchat client the “beta”, this mac os native beta is the bees knees hipchat.com/mac
— Joe DeVivo (@joedevivo) February 14, 2013
@hipchat My team couldn’t have been happier with the OS X client.
— Alper Çuğun (@alper) February 15, 2013
@hipchat Mac Beta is far, far quicker than the Air client. An improvement all round so far.
— Greg Gunner (@greggunner) February 15, 2013
@hipchat Congrats on the native mac app!! So much faster, much better user experience!
— Brice Durand (@brice_durand) February 15, 2013
huh, new Hipchat looks pretty sweet: hipchat.com/mac can’t we all just use that instead of frakking facebook and, you know, email?
— Tijs (@_tijs) February 14, 2013
Aw thanks guys for the love! 
What can you expect next?
We love you too, and our heads are down to keep improving your team’s collaborative experience. In fact, Chris, our awesome OS engineer, just released an update for the Mac beta today. In it, he tackled:
- Add cmd+f to bring up search UI
- Added retina versions for app icons
- Handle dragging images from browsers
- Add UI for changing topic (double click topic bar)
- Don’t trigger notifications when the app is focused
- Add functions for controlling font size (cmd +/-, menu options)
- The signup and help links on the login screen should no longer show “Random error messages”
- Set window title when focusing a chat
- Allow cycling through tabs with keyboard shortcuts
- Fix font for email in profile sidebar
We’re also working hard to push out the Linux and Windows beta clients as well. Make sure you leave us your email address so we can notify you as soon as they’re ready. Stay tuned as big things are coming this year. Happy chatting!